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Racism and Early Blackface Comic Traditions :

3319780484

9783319780481

3319780476

9783319780474

Racism and Early Blackface Comic Traditions :

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From the Old World to the New /

Robert Hornback.

Cham, Switzerland :

Palgrave Macmillan,

[2018]

©2018

1 online resource

Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Intro; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction: Recovering theContexts ofEarly Modern Proto-Racism; The Early African Slave Trade andRenaissance Race-Consciousness; "Re-acquainting Our Self-Stranger Nation": Recovering Postcolonial Insights viathe Self/Stranger Binary; The Racism BeforeBiologism andModernity, or "Proto-Racism" andtheRealm ofBelief; Critical Aims; Works Cited; Chapter 2: Harlequin asTheatergram: Transmitting theTimeworn Black Mask, Ancient toAntebellum; Interpreting andContextualizing Harlequin's Black Mask

African Harlequin: TheCultural Transmission ofRace-CodingOpposing Harlequins: Constructing Highbrow andLowbrow, Native andForeign Theatre; Conclusions: Harlequin's Popularity andInfluence Thereafter; Works Cited; Chapter 3: Beyond Good andEvil Symbolism: Allegories andMetaphysics ofBlackfaced Folly fromAugustine toFanon; Uncovering Metaphysical Folly Beneaththe Devil's Blackness: Allegories ofWit/Knowledge VersusDim-Witted Ignorance; Moros, theInsipiens, theHamitic Curse, andMetaphysics inColonial Race Hermeneutics

Applied Metaphysics: Shifting Blackface Hermeneutics inReal-Life PracticeLegacy andConclusions; Works Cited; Chapter 4: From Allegorical Type andSartorial Satire toMinstrel Dandy Stereotype, Zip Coon, Jim Crow, andBlackface-on-Black Violence; Black Fools andTheir Mirrors: Moralizing Emblems ofVanity intheRise oftheDandy Stereotype; Mirroring theImaginary: Moralizing Exempla forAntebellum America; Delusions ofDemocratic Egalitarianism VersusBlackface-on-Black Violence; Works Cited

Chapter 5: Sambo Dialects: Defining National Language Boundaries via Early Representations ofStereotypically Black SpeechRegional, Proto-national, andTransnational Blackface Dialects; Language Lessons: Blackface Dialects andtheCreation of"The King's English"; Baby Talk: TheChild-Like Typology andStereotype; Conclusions; Works Cited; Chapter 6: Blackface inShakespeare: Challenging Racial Allegories ofFolly andSpeech-Cleopatra, Caliban, Othello; Sub-textual Allegories ofFolly andRace inAntony andCleopatra

Psychomachia, Speech asRacialized Sign, andthe"White-Souled Ethiope" inOthelloSpeaking Parrot: BeyondManichean Binary andWhite/Black Allegorical Interpretations; Conclusions; Works Cited; Chapter 7: Shakespeare inBlackface: Black Shakespeareans versus Minstrel Burlesques, 1821-1844, or Othello versus Otello; "Shakespeare's Proud Representative[s]": Contexts forReception oftheAfrican Theatre Company; "To Beor Not toBe, Dat Is Him Question": Shakespearean English VersusMinstrel Dialect; Deciphering T.D. Rice's Otello

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"This book traces blackface types from ancient masks of grinning Africans and phallus-bearing Roman fools through to comedic medieval devils, the pan-European black-masked Titivillus and Harlequin, and racial impersonation via stereotypical 'black speech' explored in the Renaissance by Lope de Vega and Shakespeare. Jim Crow and antebellum minstrelsy recycled Old World blackface stereotypes of irrationality, ignorance, pride, and immorality. Drawing upon biblical interpretations and philosophy, comic types from moral allegory originated supposedly modern racial stereotypes. Early blackface traditions thus spread damning race-belief that black people were less rational, hence less moral and less human. Such notions furthered the global Renaissance's intertwined Atlantic slave and sugar trades and early nationalist movements. The latter featured overlapping definitions of race and nation, as well as of purity of blood, language, and religion in opposition to 'Strangers'. Ultimately, Old World beliefs still animate supposed 'biological racism' and so-called 'white nationalism' in the age of Trump."--

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Racism and Early Blackface Comic Traditions.

9783319780474

Blackface entertainers-- Europe-- History.

Racism-- Europe-- History.

Theater-- Europe-- History.

Blackface entertainers.

BODY, MIND & SPIRIT-- Spirituality-- Paganism & Neo-Paganism.

Racism.

RELIGION-- Antiquities & Archaeology.

Theater.

Europe.

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REL-- 072000

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